A Meta/Multi-Discursive Reading of `False Memory Syndrome'

1 February 1996

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in Feminism & Psychology

Vol. 6 (1) , 7-29
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353596061002

Abstract

To understand all the complexities and ramifications of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation's (FMSF) construct of False Memory Syndrome (FMS), we place FMS in the context of larger contemporary western cultural trends, including: anti-feminism; the deconstruction of mental illness; anti-psychiatry; and the postmodern deconstruction of truth and subjectivity. In these contexts, FMSF emerges as an accomplice of the mental health establishment and a leading force in the heteropatriarchal backlash against women.

Keywords

This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:

The Debate about Delayed Memories of Child Sexual Abuse
The Counseling Psychologist, 1995
The Mismeasure of Woman
Feminism & Psychology, 1993
Technologies of Gender
Published by Springer Nature ,1987
Father–daughter incest.
Professional Psychology, 1981